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Registration is open! Develop a writing habit and learn to edit your own work with The Writing Habit and Edit Yourself, both online via the Writers Grotto: The Writing Habit *ONLINE* Tuesdays, Jan 26-Feb 3 | * ONLINE* | Are you feeling stuck or unmotivated to finish your novel, memoir, or short story collection? Are […] January 6th, 2021 | Tags: creative writing classes, Editing, Meghan Ward, Memoir, Writers' Grotto, writing classes | Category: Editing, Memoir, Self-Publishing, Writing, Writing Classes | Comments are closed I’m getting excited for AWP! I just bought a new umbrella, and I’m digging my coats and sweaters out of the closet. I’ll be moderating a panel Thursday morning and participating in a reading Thursday afternoon. Please come to one or both if you’re going to AWP. I’d love to see/meet you! Details about my […] April 6th, 2015 | Tags: AImee Suzara, Amy King, AWP, AWP15, Isaac Fitzgerald, Jake Armerding, Kate Klein, Laura Joyce Davis, Meghan Ward, Minneapolis, Sarah Beth Childers, Social Media, social network, social networking, Sophronia Scott, Susan Ito, writing conference | Category: Books, Craft of Writing, Marketing, Memoir, Poetry, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 6 comments - (Comments are closed) Photo courtesy of Will Lion via Creative Commons In response an article in Creative Nonfiction titled “Platforms” Are Overrated, SheWrites Press publisher Brooke Warner wrote a great post titled Your Author Platform is Not Your Social Media Following. The quick summary of Brooke’s post is that social media is just one piece of the […] October 5th, 2014 | Tags: author platform, blogging, Brooke Warner, freelance editors, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editors, SF Grotto, SF Writers' Grotto, SheWrites, Social Media, social networking, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, The Author Platform | 26 comments - (Comments are closed) Every now and then you read a gloom and doom post about blogging like “Is blogging dead?” or “Where are all the bloggers?” Blogging is far from dead. Some people who were blogging five days a week four years ago may have slowed down or quit because they got burned out, and there’s no question […] June 21st, 2014 | Tags: author blogs, blog, Blogger, blogging, blogging class, Book Passage, Marin, Meghan Ward, San Francisco, SF Grotto, SF Writers' Grotto, Social Media, social network, The Grotto, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 14 comments - (Comments are closed) Last month I posted an interview with SheBooks co-founder Laura Fraser. This month I want to discuss a few things about what I learned by publishing my first book, Runway, and what I plan to do differently next time. Photo courtesy of NASA
1. Are you blogging to the wrong audience? What is […] June 12th, 2014 | Tags: book launch, book marketing, book publicity, freelance book editor, Meghan Ward, Memoir, networking, Publishing, San Francisco editor, Self-Publishing, Social Media, social networking, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 21 comments - (Comments are closed) Tuesday night, I had the privilege of attending Sin and Syntax author Constance Hale’s class The Book Biz from A to Z at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. One of the topics that arose was platform. Today, every agent and editor wants to know that you have a platform before representing/buying your book. But […] January 23rd, 2014 | Tags: author platform, book marketing, Marketing, Meghan Ward, personal brand, Publishing, Social Media, social networking, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 29 comments - (Comments are closed) Last month I wrote about how NOT to promote your book. This week, I want to talk about a few ways you SHOULD promote your book and other writing. 1. Include your website, Facebook page, Twitter handle, etc. in the signature on all your emails. Include your email and Twitter handle (at a minimum) […] October 18th, 2013 | Tags: author platform, book promotion, freelance editor, Marketing, Meghan Ward, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, social media marketing, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 292 comments - (Comments are closed) A phrase that’s been buzzing around the Internet lately is “transmedia storytelling.” But what is it? And how does it affect you as a writer? Transmedia storytelling is the technique of telling a single story using multiple platforms and technologies in order to expand your audience through multiple avenues of engagement. For example, a YA […] October 9th, 2013 | Tags: book marketing, book promotion, Meghan Ward, transmedia storytelling, Writerland | Category: Books, Marketing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, Writing | 22 comments - (Comments are closed) Don’t do this to your friends
Here’s a common scenario. I say to a friend, “I wonder what Sarah is up to. I haven’t heard from her since we were in that writers’ group three years ago.” Friend: “I haven’t heard from her either. I googled her once, […] September 5th, 2013 | Tags: author platform, blogging, book marketing, book promotion, Facebook, Instagram, Self-Publishing, social marketing, Social Media, Twitter | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 40 comments - (Comments are closed) Last week in my Blogging for Beginners class at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, a student declared that she doesn’t feel comfortable putting her photo on her blog, something I strongly encourage all my students to do. People want to know what the blogger they’re following looks like, and the more professional the photo, […] August 27th, 2013 | Tags: author platform, extrovert, introvert, Marketing, Meghan Ward, Publishing, Quiet, Self-Publishing, Susan Cain, The Power of Introverts, Writerland, writers, Writing | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 31 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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